“… we are all, already, walking brands. We just have to polish them so that we can see them shine.”

This is what social media is about. It helps us to polish our personal or business brand, to give it a shine that brings you the attention you need.

Note that brand is not a creation, but a discovery. You can try to project an artificial brand, but it won’t work in the long run. Brand is an articulation of who we naturally are, the best of our compassionate selves, and it reflects self-knowledge as opposed to cleverness or charisma. Your brand is your birthright, as much a part of you as your face.

In the past, personal brand didn’t matter: one succeeded by conforming personal brand to industrial ambitions. Education and culture did not foster understanding of self on that level. Our new global awareness, however, makes self understanding and articulation of individual thought the first step in becoming a healthy global citizen. It has become necessary to devote time and focus to who we are at core levels.

I’ve said it often, I’ll say it again, along with Dane Rudhyar: to be creative is only to discover what essentially is. Don’t worry about having to make something new; focus on discovering and then articulating the mysteries that are already present.